The joke about marriage, “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine” seems appropriate when discussing the tension between the concepts of intellectual property, copyright, Creative Commons and “information access for all”, especially when looked at in the context … Continue reading →

I am not currently working in a school library but am teaching casually at TAFE. My most recent experience prior to now, however, is teaching primary classes for 13 years, so the library I will focus on will be an … Continue reading →

I believe I am at Stage 1 (Immersion) of Utecht’s 5 stages of PLN adoption (Utecht, 2008) – I feel driven to find out more and particularly to check my Twitter and Yammer feeds at least daily. But I am … Continue reading →

Coffs Harbour City Library & Information Service is my local library. Through the library’s website, its clients can access the online catalogue and reserve titles as well as access databases. As far as I am aware, however, the library has … Continue reading →

Davis’s assertion (cited by Miller) that web 2.0 is “an attitude not a technology” (Miller, 2005) reinforces the four underlying principles (also known as the 4Cs) of web 2.0. Collaboration, conversation, community and content creation are products of the attitude … Continue reading →

I was keen to explore the potential of Second Life (SL) and was intrigued about the possibilities of using a virtual world in an educational setting, particularly after reading that “immersion in a digital environment can enhance education in at … Continue reading →

RSS User I have used RSS feeds for a couple of years for my own information needs. I subscribe to blogs by some of my favourite authors and to online publications providing advice to writers and last year I added … Continue reading →

DELICIOUS When I first began using Delicious 6 months ago to bookmark resources for my assignments, I merely saw it as a means of accessing my bookmarks from any computer with internet access. Now that I am developing a better … Continue reading →

This blog gives me a good chance to test out some of the social networking (SN) tools I’ve been exploring for my first assignment for INF506. Although I’ve examined their use in class blogs and evaluated how effectively they can … Continue reading →